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Inventor. Engineer. Businessman. Known for. Popularising the electric fence. Relatives. Bill Gallagher (son) Alfred William Gallagher MBE (17 May 1911 – 8 August 1990) was a New Zealand inventor, manufacturing engineer and businessman. He is notable for popularising the electric fence.
An electric fence is a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter people and other animals [note 1] from crossing a boundary. The voltage of the shock may have effects ranging from discomfort to death. Most electric fences are used for agricultural fencing and other forms of non-human animal control, although they are also used to protect high ...
Biography. Gallagher was born on 22 January 1941, the son of Bill Gallagher [1] and Millie Gallagher (née Murray). [2][3] His father was an inventor, engineer and businessman who is best remembered for popularising the electric fence; he founded Gallagher Engineering Limited in Hamilton in 1963. The younger Bill Gallagher and his brother John ...
Number 8 wire. A model showing a method for jury-rigging a rudder, an example of Number 8 wire mentality. Number 8 wire is a 0.16-inch-diameter (4.064 mm) gauge of wire on the British Standard Wire Gauge that has entered into the cultural lexicon of New Zealand.
Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited [5] Ernest Godward – inventor of the eggbeater [6] A. J. Hackett – popularised of commercial Bungy jumping [7] Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat [8] Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal [citation needed]
Buried electric fences, called "invisible fence," are sometimes used to contain dogs, who wear a specialized collar when outside that gives a mild shock if the dog crosses the fence line. Humans and other animals are unaware of the buried line. This wire does not carry current. A transmitter sends out a radio signal.
Wire of Death. Coordinates: 51°16′56″N 5°31′41″E. View of the Wire of Death from Sluis. The Wire of Death (Dutch: Dodendraad, German: Todesdraht, French: Fil De La Mort) was a lethal electric fence created by the German military to control the Dutch–Belgian frontier after the occupation of Belgium during the First World War.
Early street lights in New Zealand were first installed in major cities in the 1860s with Christchurch recording having 152 gas lamps throughout the city. [1] With the shift to electric lights cities moved away from gas lamps and on to the incandescent lamps with the towns of Wellington (1889) and Reefton (early 1900s) becoming the first cities in the southern hemisphere to have electric ...